dont buy glowshift products

[zhjiln]

To any person who is going to buy a wideband, please do stay away from glowshift products.

I have a glowshift wideband, least accurate sh!t on sale today. i always calibrate it (outside exhaust) every few weeks.
and it always says i am 10.0 AFR at WOT .. pretty conservative, and safe i thought at 18 psi ...

but evoscan disagrees.... well my with my setup SAFC - 30 on HI across ...
3rd gear pull from 3,000 rpm... and around 4.8K rpm to 6.6K , i get 9 counts of knock (with 71*F intake temps) while the wideband says im at 10.0 AFR....

well, ill be throwing away this junk .. and getting a innovate WB ... so heads just a heads up ... glowshift products
at least evoscan is doings its job ... stupid glowshift WB ..

YouTube - evoscan log

 

[zhjiln]

yea i think high boost over timing is more power too... thats what 97gstnick is also prefers.. 25psi ..4* timing apparently ...

and yes you can really feel the effects of timing being pulled.

 

[tehehodi]

i'll take your gauge if your throwing it away

 

[Bluefire16]

I got their tranny temp gauge and oil pressure...they seem to work fine. Just my oil pressure died on me ### of the vibration....

 

[GST98BIG16G]

I had glowshift gauges ( Boost , oil pressure ) for 4 years now , they work perfectly!

 

[dsmfa9nutter]

Sounds like you're running rich, a good way to cause knock at higher rpm.

 

[Silver99GSX]

i would never buy any glowshift products, they seem to be junk

 

[FenixTX717]

Is anyone else using the Glowshift Wideband? I bought mine months ago when a vender was selling them dirt cheap when they 1st came out. I would like to use it but if they are not good then I'm going to try and sell it. I know they use the bosch o2 sensor itself and those are pretty standard I assume?

So maybe it's just the gauge that sucks?

 

[hediki12]

to the op... get some one with a aem, plx or innovative wbo2 and hook it up in your car and see what it reads. you shouldnt bash a product just because your tune may be off. i have glow shift boost gauge and its great.

 

[hediki12]

i would never buy any glowshift products, they seem to be junk

and how did you come up with this fact? do you have glow shift gauges in a 12sec car (well my friend does) do you have a glow shift in a 500 horse power car that is fully tuned and can be backed up by a 5 bar map sensor ? well my friend does. do you have glow shift products in a car that will do low 9s on drag radial and your afraid to put slick on becaus e your scared of it? dont bash a product you cant back up factual a lot of my friends use it . certain things just dont make sense being over priced.

 

[zhjiln]

to the op... get some one with a aem, plx or innovative wbo2 and hook it up in your car and see what it reads. you shouldnt bash a product just because your tune may be off. i have glow shift boost gauge and its great.

yea i am deciding between AEM and Innovate ... no bashing, just sharing my experience, and warning others of an already shady reputation of said company

 

[v8s_are_slow]

I know this is a lil old but I have the boost and fuel pressure gauges at the moment. Thought I'd say that I'm loving mine. Also, here's the question I have. Are you guys getting the mechanical gauges or electrical? I have the electrical and they're NOT expensive. My boost gauge is dead on. Even when I shut off the car, the boost gauge sits at 0 unlike the many Autometer's I've used. My instructions also said to hook it up using a 3 amp fuse. How many of you guys are actually doing this? My guess is that some of ya'll are probably doing a halfass install and hooking it up to a higher amp fuse than what's recommended, get a surge, your gauges are jacked, then ya'll wanna say, "Glowshift gauges are crap". Not saying this about everyone or to the original poster even. Just saying that you should make sure it's hooked up properly as well as to say that I'm sure there's a difference in quality between the mechanical and electrical quages.

 

[92AWDHX40]

I have 2 gauges and, they work fine, I like them for the money great buy. I searched for a while on gauges, and i had autometer they were ok.

 

[Jed_Atreides]

My impression of Glowshift is their stuff just lights up pretty. Most of the tuners I know use brand name gauges like Defi, Autometer, Blitz, Apex'i, Innovate...etc. Their gauges seems to just imitate function, like fart can on a H**da r*cer.

 

[donniekak]

I had a glowshift boost gauge in a stealth i bought, the needle fell off. I had a prosport wideband in a talon i bought and it seemed to be fairly accurate but had no output for logging, or to simulate a nb for the ecu. My opinion is that there are much better choices, without paying more.

 

[zhjiln]

I know this is a lil old but I have the boost and fuel pressure gauges at the moment. Thought I'd say that I'm loving mine. Also, here's the question I have. Are you guys getting the mechanical gauges or electrical? I have the electrical and they're NOT expensive. My boost gauge is dead on. Even when I shut off the car, the boost gauge sits at 0 unlike the many Autometer's I've used. My instructions also said to hook it up using a 3 amp fuse. How many of you guys are actually doing this? My guess is that some of ya'll are probably doing a halfass install and hooking it up to a higher amp fuse than what's recommended, get a surge, your gauges are jacked, then ya'll wanna say, "Glowshift gauges are crap". Not saying this about everyone or to the original poster even. Just saying that you should make sure it's hooked up properly as well as to say that I'm sure there's a difference in quality between the mechanical and electrical quages.

power source or amps has nothing to do with the needle not resting at zero when off.. its just the product is crap...

and mine is mechanical fyi..

 

[falcon8r]

I do have the gloshift w/b. I was not so much interested in the gauge as a lower cost way of getting a wideband output. The w/b seems to work fine. My only complaint is the blinking warning display @ full lean with the computer's fuel cut on decelleration. Without the dimmer wire hooked up, it is blinding at night, but so is the shift light in my prostreet hotrod. It's just too much for the false alarm the dsm triggers. Tres....

 

[TsiBoosted4g63]

im about to install my glowshift boost gauge.... :/ i hope its just the widebands that are crap!!!
well i can update yall if i have any problems with the boost gauge!!!
one thing tho is that the mounting bolts are positioned funny for where i was going to mount it! but thats whatever!

i have a glowshift boost gauge as far as i know it is accurate.

 

[newdsmtnr96]

my boost gauge acts up a little bit. But other then that it works great. I might call them they said that if it keeps acting up they will replace it for free.

 

[DSMopar]

yea i am deciding between AEM and Innovate ... no bashing, just sharing my experience, and warning others of an already shady reputation of said company

Problem is your experience is completely invalid until you verify its innaccuracy with a proven gauge.

I'm guessing 'EvoScan' is some regular logging software that uses the stock o2s to 'estimate' A/F? If so that shit is completely useless.

 

[Colt4G63 also]

I believe your test is invalid. For instance I have an AEM wideband in my car, and I've had knock issues when my wideband said 10:1. Why... Because that's as rich as it goes. I leaned it out several points on DSMlink before it started to read 10.1:1. Then leaned it out a few more points to 10.2:1 and my knock disappeared. There is a such thing as too rich you know. You could be well into the 9:1 range and you would never know it, but that's how widebands are designed, they just don't read that rich.

 

[bagged420a]

I have a boost guage from glow shift and an EBC and the glowshift is pretty much dead on and when off it does in fact read zero. Now, maybe I just got lucky and got the one and only good guage but i highly doubt it. And your reason for saying the wb is crap without actual proof its not working properly. And by the way you get what you pay for, should have got a testes and true wb to start with

 

[92AWDHX40]

Customer service is great i had a sending unit fail, another was at my door in about 3 days. No problems since, it is what it is, everyone has prefernces about certain products, on the other hand a wideband no. This thread could go on and on.

 

[91talon27]

by the way, stay away from prosport too (makers of glowshift), my boostgauge is at 3 inHG when the car is off...

Prosport does not manufacture or distribute glowshift gauges. Glowshift gauges are only a few years old. ( Less than 5 ) Prosport has been producing high quality gauges for over 30 years and are primarily used in Subaru Rally Cars. Glowshift copied the look of the gauges manufactured by Prosport. Prosport are some of the most accurate gauges on the market. Just because something looks alike doesn't mean they are manufactured by the same company.

 

[TSITurbo95]

I have a glowshift wideband, and it works perfectly. Perhaps its your luck?

 

[tsihottie]

I had glowshift tinted gauges in my GSX for a year and they worked great and I sold the car. I had the boost, A/F, and trans temp gauges. Before I bought the glowshift, I had autometer prolite gauges and the boost gauge always sat on 2psi when the car was off and my glowshift always sat on 0 where it should be.